Mercury resistance and mercuric reductase activities and expression among chemotrophic thermophilic aquificae

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6568-6575

  Freedman, Zachary ^a,b   Zhu, Chengsheng ^a   Barkay, Tamar ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CELL EXTRACTS; CELLULAR GROWTH; MERCURIC REDUCTASE; MERCURY RESISTANCE; NAD(P)H; NATURAL HABITAT; OXIDATION ACTIVITIES; PHYLOGENETIC RECONSTRUCTION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SPECIFIC ACTIVITY;

CELL CULTURE; DETOXIFICATION; HYDROGEN; MERCURY (METAL); OPTIMIZATION; STRAIN;

BACTERIA;

MERCURY; MERCURY (II) REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PHYLOGENETICS; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MERCURY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TEMPERATURE;

AQUIFICAE; AQUIFICAE (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HYDROGENIVIRGA; HYDROGENOBACULUM;

EID: 84866159867     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01060-12     Document Type: Article

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